Harry Gribbon

After becoming infatuated with a pretty office worker for MGM Newsreels, Buster trades in his tintype operation for a movie camera and sets out to impress the girl (and MGM) with his work.

Colonel Pepper brings his daughter, Peggy, to Hollywood from Georgia to be an actress. There she meets Billy who gets her work at Comet Studio doing comedies with him. But Peggy is discovered by High Art Studio and she leaves Billy and Comet to work there... (imdb)

A compilation of scenes featuring some of the best-known comics from the silent era in their best films. (imdb)

John Drury saves Duke, a wild horse accused of murder, and trains him. When he discovers that the real murderer, a bad guy known as The Hawk, is the town's leading citizen, Drury arrested on a fraudulent charge. (imdb)

A scientist builds an underwater ship to search for a legendary race of fish men. (TCM.com)

Both Joe E. Brown and Guinn Williams are named Joe Holt; Brown is a shipping clerk and Williams is a champion Canadian swimmer. Socialite Ginger Rogers gets them confused and thinks that Brown is the inventor of an unsinkable swim suit and enters him in a 20 mile (32 km) swim race. (imdb)

A series of strange, inexplicable, and increasingly frightening events takes place in Mosby Manor. (imdb)

Andy and Harry get into trouble while trying to stop the marriage of Andy's daughter. (imdb)

The day starts off as any normal day on Roach's farm, where Teddy, the farmhouse dog, is doing more productive work than everyone else combined. But the day changes when Roach's farmhand sees an opportunity to be the knight in shining armor to Louise, Roach's daughter, who he wants to marry. (imdb)

Ambrose loses his girl-friend to Harry Gribbon in the park. When Ambrose's "girl-friend"'s twin sister and husband arrive everybody gets mixed-up between the two twins. (imdb)

The story is about a crackpot inventor who manages to get himself in a heap of trouble. Though no fault of his own, it appears that he's run off with the wife of a cop and both the policeman and the inventor's wife are in hot pursuit. What makes this interesting are the inventor's clever devices--such as a hot air balloon car! (imdb)

The movie makers are filming the next installment of the western serial "Get Your Man". The movie's leading man wants his stunt double to do the next dangerous stunt. Purely by accident cross-eyed aspiring actor named Joe Magee ends up doing the stunt perfectly. He ends up doing dangerous stunt after stunt, all by accident, that fit the movie so perfectly that the movie's leading lady wants him in the picture. The director finds that getting Joe to do the stunts on command is an different story. (imdb)

In part because of a bad night of sleep, a soda clerk at a department store is having a bad day at work, which negatively affects his relationship with a pretty cashier, to who he is attracted, and a ribbon clerk, who is also attracted to the cashier. The next morning, the cashier is charged with a robbery that occurred overnight at the store. However, circumstantial evidence points to the soda clerk having committed both the $10,000 robbery and the assumed murder of the store's nightwatchman. (imdb)

A 1934 Warner Brothers Vitaphone short, "Corn on the Cob." In this one, two hobos launch a get-rich scheme by trying to sell axle grease marketed as salve for relief from corns and bunions. The idea, unfortunately, goes awry. Starring Harry Gribbon with Shemp Howard, Boyd Davis, and Mary Doran. (imdb)

The life of a less-than successful professional boxer changes when he takes in an orphan. (en.wikipedia.org)

Two incompetent private detectives pose as swamis in order to infiltrate a gang of bank robbers. (imdb)

Sixth entry in the Rufftown 2-reel comedy series based on stories by Arthur 'Bugs' Baer.

This fun little piece has Danny Kaye as man who buys a life insurance policy. What the insurance salesman doesn't know is that Danny is on the hit list by assassins so he has to do everything he can to keep him alive or else pay up on the policy.

Uncle Claude comes to the Ardmore Beach Hotel to see Tommy and his wife. At the hotel, with his two granddaughters Ruth and Sally, Uncle Claude meets a wise talking employee named Letty which causes him to leave the Hotel. When he finds Tommy, he mistakes Grace for his wife and likes her and the way she keeps a clean house. To get a big check from Uncle Claude and to see how life is with the other, the two couples switch spouses for a week. (imdb)

California's gold dicovery in 1848 draws a "tide of empire" to the area, which becomes ripe for bandits. (imdb)

Charlie Guest (Charlie Guest) wants to be a golfer. Bert Swor (Bert Swor) is a famous golfer. Thelma Hill (Thelma Hill) only loves the best golfer. Follow Charlie as he tries to become the world's greatest golfer and win Thelma's love. (imdb)

With unpaid actors and staff, the stage show Phantom Sweetheart seems doomed. To complicate matters, the box office takings have been robbed and the leading lady refuses to appear. Can the show be saved?

Largely a typical Keystone flirting-in-the-park one-reeler, this one is differentiated slightly by dressing the players in early nineteenth century garb and having them adopt antiquated manners.

Billy Bevan, Harry Gribbon, Kewpie Morgan and their dog engage in a poker game.

Caught With The Goods (1917) in a jealousy comedy starring Harry Gribbon, Alice Jorgens, and Joseph Callahan.

A man wins a dance contest at a cabaret, but his wife hears it on the radio and decides to get back at him.

A mob boss is ready to kill when he discovers a pair of ex-cons pasting up his wanted poster all over town. (imdb)

Horace Glutz is an expert on mushrooms and toadstools. A simple dinner party with the family, and brother-in law Bertram's uninvited pool hall buddies, turns sour when the main dish of mushrooms turns out to have been toadstools - or was it? (imdb)

Two brothers are ordered by their parents to go to Paris to study in an art studio. They pay two painters (the type who use gallon cans) to impersonate them and go in their place. When the imposters win an art contest, they are exposed by an unexpected visitor. (imdb)

This Mack Sennett produced short has Donald Novis playing Danny O'Brien, a young singer whose mother takes him to a talent agent office where she demands that the owners listen to him.

At football-mad Castoria College, Charlie Horse and Phil McCavity are two of the football team's players. Through sheer luck, they manage to lead their team to victory in the last game before graduation. Following graduation, Alma Matter, a pretty coed to who Phil is attracted, holds a reunion party at her parent's house. Alma has become an aviatrix and wants Charlie's help in getting her plane ready for a flight, as he has become a blacksmith who has supposed expertise in mechanics.

Two Americans attempt to make time with the daughter of the British financier of an archaeological expedition to Egypt.

Andy's top boxer walks out on him, later claims to be champ.

The story begins in the locker room and the players learn that Andy has bet all their money on the game....which means they'll make out great IF they win. Otherwise, he's in big trouble. And, not surprisingly, it all boils down to the bottom of the 9th inning. Will Clyde be the hero or will his players collectively beat the stuffing out of him?

Sennett's studio had been mocking cowboy movies for more than a decade, and the introduction of sound gave them more things to make fun of. There are also the issues of dealing with sound equipment and the Vitaphone discs.

Taxi dancer Marjorie Beebe has just gotten engaged to jealous Harry Gribbon. She's taking a week at the beach, and off she goes, to meet wealthy Frank Eastman. But Gribbon haunts her, and she tries to preserve her honor, and indeed her life.

A Masquers' Club spoof short. Newly-weds spend their wedding night in a run-down hotel, watched over by an under-employed house detective. When the bride goes missing, the groom (Horton) is chief suspect number one. Fortunately, the cops are completely incompetent.

Harry Gribbon is a down-and-outer on the road and stops at a farm for a hand-out. The a farmer's wife makes him chop wood to earn the food and he sees and falls in love with her daughter. The hired-hand is also in love with her so conflicts arise.

Harry (Harry Gribbon) and Beulah are married when the story begins. However, Harry has plenty of evidence that Beulah might be cheating on him...but he's VERY slow to notice the signs. However, when Harry tries to catch his wife in the act with another man, police catch him climbing the fire escape and assume he's some kissing bandit. This leads to a visit with the police psychologist.

Newlywed Harry Gribbon brings his wife (Anita Garvin) home to meet his country family which includes their perspective choice for a daughter-in-law.

The Palooka gang is out of money again, and Knobby and Johnny try to raise some quick cash by selling phony watches. Their first sale is their last, when a burly customer realizes he’s been had. Next stop, Joe, Knobby and Punchy load up at a local diner, and Knobby has a scheme to skip out on the bill.

Andy, a college dean, is forced to put his old friend Harry on the football team.

Harry Gribbon runs a boarding house, which creates chaotic situations in this Mack Sennett comedy.

Harry Gribbon is an incredibly talented, but reluctant college football player who is dating one of his teachers, Geneva Mitchell. A jealous rival tries sabotaging Harry.

Harry and Joey are reluctantly out to capture "Black Pedro" the bandit.

Miss Devore plays Tommy, a young woman who runs a boarding house for her father, an inventor of eccentric devices, and the boarders are the usual collection of neurotics in such an effort.

A master criminologist examines clues which may lead him to a missing diamond necklace, or to whoever is throwing pies. A clue leads to a subplot about Harry Gribbon selling eggs and getting married at shotgun.

Arabian princess Dorothy Granger has all the sheiks pining for her, but she loves Hollywood singing cowboy Harry Gribbon. When she discovers Gribbon is to wed Babe Kane, Miss Granger has one of her devotees steal Gribbon's trusty steed, Trixie. Gribbon cannot wed until he recovers Trixie, so he goes in search of her. Five years later, he is in the Foreign Legion.

Elmer and Fannie Blue (Ray Hughes and Dorothy Gulliver) are happy that their neighbors in the duplex apartment next door, that shares an interior wall, have vacated and are looking forward to having newer and nicer neighbors. Then, Oscar Black and his wife (Harry Gribbon and Vivien Oakland, who was billed as Vivian Oakland) move in, but not with out borrowing money from the Blues to pay the movers, and Oscar keeps the change.

Harry Gribbon is a masseur. He's sent out on a couple of jobs. After the first one goes poorly, it's on to the next. Before he can get there, he's mistaken for a fall guy in a fake accident racket ring.

A singing doughboy on the Western Front volunteers for a dangerous mission behind enemy lines.

Harry joins the Army to meet girls, and ends up driving his drill sergeant nuts in the process. While in basic training, to flee an angry mob, he disguises himself as a Major and ace pilot.

Harry Gribbon (the lunkhead) is in love with beautiful Thelma Hill but she's in love with someone else.